Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-29

| the United States.
1t is reported from Butte Citv, NJ. T.,
that twelve-year-old boothlack there
! has $500 which he has earned deposited
in one of the city banks.
Thomas Perry walked from Terre
| Haute to Disco. a distance of five
miles. in ffty-eight minutes on his esd
| birthday. He made the last mile in
eight minutes.
Elias Waynlan of York State is 104
years old, and has used tobacco for
ninety-four years. He fears it will be
| the death of him yetif he cannot break
| off the habit.
lone more sign of the economics of
progress" says the New York Times,
s'is that it is contemplated to make
wax candles out Of sugar-cane 1t
yields cerosine. which, has high
melting point"
Thoughtless and inconsiderate
Bostonians are laughing at the En-
glish young woman who recently, after
hearing much praise Of butternuts,
said: ''At what season of the year
are doughnuts ripe"
The Philadelphia Ledger says that
card playing is social craze in Lon
don, and that thousands of young
ladies in the city are familiar with
the mysteries of the Jackpot poker
and other like utensils"
A Boston man who is manufacturer
of raspberry jam says that no rasp-
berrys are used in making it. What is
used, it appears, are tomatoes, glucose
and hayseed, and a little prepared
raspberry flavor.
The Hastings Gazette-JournaI
sports a corncob pipe upon which
potato has been grated. It
is considered the rarest jewel in the
shop, as the pipe reduces the tuber to
FASTING consistency.
1t is reported that the English church
establishment receives yearly in tithes
about $4,000, 200. Of this SIS, 1000, 900
goes for salaries of clergymen and the
remainder goes to hospitals, schools.
church buildings, and the like.
At Burg Hill, Ohio, Charles Smith
shot blue heron at his carp pond,
and found forty-seven fish in its
stomach. From the appearance of
the carp they had just been swallowed,
and constituted only one meal for the
bird.
Under a recent decision Of the North
Carolina Supreme Court Judge in
that state has issued warrant for the
arrest of man for committing an
assault with a deadly weapon, ''to-
wit, "a certain vicious and large bull
dog"
Archbishop Heiss of Milwaukee saws
that of the 100000 Roman catholics
of the United States 100000 are Ger
mans. OF the eleven archbishops and
sixty bishops only one archbishop, Dr.
Heiss himself, and eleven bishops are
German.
Capt. A. K. Ham, a '49er, died re-
Gently in San Jose, Cal, worth about
100000. He was a bachelor, and
occupied a room in his livery stable.
His heirs are two brothers, one of
whom lives in Oakland and the other
in Santa Cruz.
A woman in q red dress was walk
ing in the streets of Zacatecas, Mexico,
when bull, attracted by the scarlet
color rushed at her and tossed her sky
high. She alighted on the ground, on
her hustle, on the other side of a wall,
and without injury.
While a log was being sawed through
in a North Michigan lumber camp the
saw cut in two a large moccasin snake
that was encased in the heart of the
wood. There was no opening at
either end Of the log, and the wonder
is how the snake UOt there
st. Joseph, Mo-, is expecting to have
a centerarian. r. Ussleton Compton,
who was ninety-nine years old III May
last, has lived there for forty-seven
years, and his mental and bodily yigor
warrant the belief that he will reach
his one-hundredth birthday.
The Santa Cruz Surf tells of an i'm
mense sea turtle which was caught
near Capitola the other day. 1t
measured eight feet from the tip of
its nose to the tip of its tail and its
weight is guessed by local guesser to
be about one thousand pounds.
A silk dress coat has reached Boston
and made tremendous sensation
among the dudes. It is really a
handsome garment, made of heavy,
corded, lusterless silk, which, at little
distance. looks like the richest of black
broadcloth. 1t is Paris fashion.
A Belmont county (Ohio) farmer re-
ioices in a heterogeneous collection of
freaks, consisting of pig whose feet
are split SO as to give it the appearance
of having toes, another with three
ears, cat with one ear growing
wrong side out, and boy with three
thumbs.
When settler in the Northwest
territory wants to go back to Ontario
to be married the Canadian Pacific
railroad sells him a matrimonial ticket
at the usual rate, and on presenting
the return coupon and marriage GER
titicate he is entitled to free Transport
tation for his bride.
The Santa Rosa Republican tells of
an indulgent mother in that town
whose 14-year-old son is confined in
the county jail, and who sent him a
bible, a bunch of cigarettes, a piece of